Although MuscleShoals has receeded somewhat from its 1960s and 1970s status as "Hit Recording Capital of the World," as a sign near the airport says, it remains an important and enduring landmark location for the American recording industry.

And MuscleShoals is not the recording capital it once was, but there still is a great deal of music-business activity here.

When locals talk about MuscleShoals, they are talking about a broader area known simply as The Shoals, which includes the adjacent towns of Florence, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia, spread across Lauderdale and Colbert counties that 143,000 people call home.

MuscleShoals began its slow fade as a recording center in the late 1980s when traditional rhythm and blues slowly gave way to hip-hop and rap.

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The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)

he MuscleShoals Rhythm Section is considered one of the finest studio rhythm sections in the world.

The MuscleShoals Rhythm Section is the 1995 Lifework Award for Non-Performing Achievement recipients.

The members of the Rhythm Section, Jimmy Johnson, guitar, Roger Hawkins, drums, David Hood, bass, and Barry Beckett, keyboards, developed new facilities in 1978 when their efforts outgrew the original location, and a new state of the art, two-studio complex was opened on the banks of the Tennessee River.

Oh yes, and the MuscleShoals Horns are conspicuous by their prominence here, too.

Spooner Oldham, Donnie Fritts, Bobby Whitlock, The MuscleShoals Horns, Brian Wheeler, James Hooker-there's enough guys here to field a damn good softball game, too, as long as the barbecue is kept up (and no duck on the menu, mind you).

David Hood (bass) was a member of the world famous MuscleShoals Rhythm Section and was instrumental in helping to put together the influential MuscleShoals sound.

Developed by backers of Henry Ford, who planned an auto plant in MuscleShoals, it is located in Colbert County (North Region), just south of Florence along Highway 43 near the Tennessee River placing it as part of the Florence, Alabama metro area.

The city is home to a local recording studio producing "MuscleShoals Sound" for Wilson Pickett, Percy Sledge, and other rock and soul musicians.

The Northwest Shoals Community College is the main part of the city providing higher education to all in the area.

MuscleShoals Sound Studios was founded in 1969 in an old Sheffield, Alabama, casket warehouse by musicians Barry Beckett, Roger Hawkins, David Hood and Jimmy Johnson, who doubled as its famous house band, the MuscleShoals Rhythm Section (a.k.a.

However, for artists like Bob Seger -- who, after hearing the Rhythm Section's work on Arthur Conley's "Sweet Soul Music," recorded five albums at MuscleShoals -- it was not the building but the band that made the studio special.